I would like to take this brief respite in deliveries to wish our hardworking KarelXWB a Happy New Year! Your contributions are much appreciated and thanks for keeping us informed here on A.Net. Have a great 2018!

Hopefully Airbus will reach their delivery target this year if things with the engine manufacturer go smooth. And are Pratt and Whittney powered airframes allowed to fly higher then 30,000 feet now? I would imagine that restriction removed now.

Hopefully Airbus will reach their delivery target this year if things with the engine manufacturer go smooth. And are Pratt and Whittney powered airframes allowed to fly higher then 30,000 feet now? I would imagine that restriction removed now.

Did you mean engine manufacturers? CFM is still running behind engine deliveries, forcing Airbus to put aircraft into temporary storage until engine arrive.

I would like to take this brief respite in deliveries to wish our hardworking KarelXWB a Happy New Year! Your contributions are much appreciated and thanks for keeping us informed here on A.Net. Have a great 2018!

Hopefully Airbus will reach their delivery target this year if things with the engine manufacturer go smooth. And are Pratt and Whittney powered airframes allowed to fly higher then 30,000 feet now? I would imagine that restriction removed now.

Did you mean engine manufacturers? CFM is still running behind engine deliveries, forcing Airbus to put aircraft into temporary storage until engine arrive.

I've a question concerning FAL Tianjin. Google earthI noticed there is a hangar facility between the A320 FAL and the A330 completion center. This is located west of the high voltage station. Is this part of the A320 FAL (additional cabin outfitting hangars) or is this a narrowbody maintainance facility?

...And are Pratt and Whittney powered airframes allowed to fly higher then 30,000 feet now? I would imagine that restriction removed now.

IIRC there was no official "restriction" to FL300.Some operator let their aircrafts only fly to max FL300 because above this Level the buffer air at the PW switches to often from high to low and back to high. This produce more pressure bumps to the No 3 bearing than expected and this was one of the factors for the early bearing failures. Now there are several SB´s which can solve this problem.

While the "More to Love" livery looks terrible IMHO with the purple/pink/red, I imagine the whole fuselage in a pattern of those light/dark/darker blue colour of the fin would be really great.You can throw in a green line if you like

Airbus finally received CAAC certification for the P&W powered A321neo (P&W powered A320neo was certified about a year earlier).

Only in the closing days of last year was Airbus awarded Chinese certification for its new A321neo with Pratt & Whitney engines, the company said. That approval came nearly a year after many of the planes on order had already been made. Both A320neo and A321neo jets with CFM International engines have yet to win Chinese approval.

This is your pilot speaking. Welcome to flight one from here to there. We'll be flying at a height of ten feet, going up to twelve and a half feet if we see anything big. My copilot today is a flask of coffee.